NAT. ORDER. 
LilacecB. 
LIBIUM PHILADELPHICUM. ORANGE OR TIGER LILY. 
Class VI. Hexandria. Ordej- I. Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Corolla six-pelaled, bell-shaped, with a long necta- 
rious line. Capsules the valves connected by cancellated hair. 
Spe. Char. Leaves verticulate, linear-lanceolate. Nerves hairy be- 
neath. iSifm one to two flowered. C(9r^?//a erect, companuble, 
spreading. Petals unquiculate. 
The root is large, knotty, and covered with numerous small 
succulent fibres ; the stem is firm, round, upright, simple, and usually 
rises from eighteen to thirty inches in height ; the leaves are numer- 
ous, long, narrow, pointed, smooth, without footstalks, and irregular- 
ly scattered over the stem ; the Jlowers are large, of an orange yel- 
low, spotted with dark red, and terminate the stem in clusters upon 
short peduncles; it has no calyx; the corolla is bell-shaped, consist- 
ing of six petals, which within are of a beautiful shuiing white, but 
without ridged, and of a less luminous appearance; the filaments 
are six tapering, much shorter than the corolla, upon which are 
placed transversely lai'ge orange-colored anthers ; the style is longer 
than the filaments, and furnished with a fleshy triangular stigma ; 
the germen becomes an oblong capsule, marked with six furrows, 
and divided into three cells, each of which contain a number of flat- 
ish, semicircular formed seeds. It flowers in June and July. 
The lily has now become one of the most common ornaments of 
the flower garden ; the principal florists, both of this country and 
England, have introduced its culture as a border plant, and it is now 
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